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idiˈotical, a.
Also 8 ideotical.
[f. late L. idiōtic-us uneducated, ignorant, unskilful (a. Gr. ἰδιωτικός, f. ἰδιώτης: see idiot) + -al1.]
†1. Uneducated, unlearned, plain, ignorant. Obs.
idiotical psalms, ψαλµοὶ ἰδιωτικοί, psalms composed by uneducated persons or laymen, the use of which was forbidden by the Council of Laodicea.
1646J. Gregory Notes & Obs. To Rdr. (1650) ⁋iv b, You may take it perhaps as forbidden by the Laodicean Canon among the Idioticall Psalmes. a1652J. Smith Sel. Disc. (1821) 184 It [truth] speaks with the most idiotical sort of men in the most idiotical way. 1679J. Goodman Penit. Pardoned iii. ii. (1713) 283 It is not being..learned or idiotical, which makes so great a difference betwixt them. 1725Blackwall Sacr. Classics I. 271 (T.) The language of the sublimest authors of Greece is, upon occasion, idiotical and vulgar.
†2. Private, personal, individual. Obs. rare.
1656Blount Glossogr., Idiotical, private or belonging to private men. 1660R. Coke Justice Vind. 7 He..absurdly prefers the obedience of the Commander..before the idiotical good of the Subject.
3. = idiotic.
1656Blount Glossogr., Idiotical,..belonging to an Idiot. 1751Smollett Per. Pic. (1779) IV. xci. 92 The ideotical hag. 1795Gifford Mæviad (1811) 60, I recollect but two exceptions. Merry's idiotical Opera, and Mrs. Robinson's more idiotical Farce. 1834H. Miller Scenes & Leg. xxix. (1857) 443 Persons of an idiotical cast of mind.
Hence idiˈotically adv., in an idiotical manner; idiˈoticalness, utter stupidity or irrationality.
1668H. More Div. Dial. ii. xi. (1713) 122 It is the Idioticalness of your phancy that makes you thus puzzled. 1668Wilkins Real Char. 195 Idioticalness, being as a natural Fool. 1834M. Scott Cruise Midge (1859) 279 That Idiotically serious kind of look that a man puts on who is conscious of having drank a little more than he should have done. 1860Gen. P. Thompson Audi Alt. III. cxvi. 51 War idiotically begun, and carried on with contempt of the ordinary rules for escaping defeat. |